our business just lost a major client,
and now we're all looking for work. I had a job interview on Wednesday and i've been crying ever since.
(Moon Girl Technologieshorrendous beanbag, Fri 11 Aug 2017, 15:12,
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well we've got one client left who is promising us money,
but we were expecting this to be sorted out back in March and it just keeps getting pushed back and back and if nothing happens by 3 months that's it, they're out of business too, and everyone's out of business and we're all fucked.
(Moon Girl Technologieshorrendous beanbag, Fri 11 Aug 2017, 15:28,
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we've had to make 4 of our friends redundant,
and we've been living out of my savings for the last 3 months and we don't know yet if we can get out of the contract on the office
(Moon Girl Technologieshorrendous beanbag, Fri 11 Aug 2017, 15:40,
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When life gives you lemon
Kick life in the dick.
(keybowas imtypingonakeyboard, now I'm not, Fri 11 Aug 2017, 15:24,
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i started crying while chopping an onion the other day,
and then started laughing because of the idea of that, funny old world
(Moon Girl Technologieshorrendous beanbag, Fri 11 Aug 2017, 15:26,
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That's a shame MGT.
I had a technical phone interview Monday that I fucked right up.

i had to admit to not knowing very much about a lot of things,
i just don't know how much they were expecting, because it's pretty specialist stuff that surely not many people know unless they've got the job already, i dunno..
(Moon Girl Technologieshorrendous beanbag, Fri 11 Aug 2017, 15:34,
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I think I'm going to work on the principle I don't want to work anywhere that has a rigorous laid-out-by-hr recruitment process.
As that's probably a big corporate shop I don't want to be in.
(Slippery Mick, Fri 11 Aug 2017, 15:35,
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i kind of can't really afford to be that fussy at the moment,
but, i dunno.. i draw the line at military stuff
(Moon Girl Technologieshorrendous beanbag, Fri 11 Aug 2017, 15:38,
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most of the C++ work seems to be embedded atm,
which i wouldn't mind doing but i've got no experience in it
(Moon Girl Technologieshorrendous beanbag, Fri 11 Aug 2017, 15:51,
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Hmm, NCR in Edinburgh and Dundee are doing that I think.
Have you considered doing something other than C++? If you can do that lots of places would probably take you on with a C background because everything else is easy to switch to by comparison.
(Slippery Mick, Fri 11 Aug 2017, 15:54,
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well i'd "consider" it,
but i've spent the last 3 years doing mostly C++ so it seemed a sensible thing to look for, i mean i have done other things including Java although tbh i fucking hate it
(Moon Girl Technologieshorrendous beanbag, Fri 11 Aug 2017, 15:58,
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I'd quite like an opportunity to give python a go I reckon.
I don't mind Java as a language but it's all enterprisey stuff that uses it.
(Slippery Mick, Fri 11 Aug 2017, 16:00,
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i dunno i bought a Blu-ray player lately,
that says "powered by Java" on the back, make of that what you will.

Why Python? I've done a bit of it, the semantic whitespace takes a bit of getting used to. Other than that it's the same Dynamic Typing Hell you get in most scripting languages which makes them woefully unsuitable for server-side stuff. Or, let's be honest, Any Stuff.
(Moon Girl Technologieshorrendous beanbag, Fri 11 Aug 2017, 16:11,
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My take of that would be it's an easy transportable language to write middleware in.
I'm not sold on dynamic typing but it seems quite quick and easy to do stuff with.

Found an excuse to mock something up in work and it was easy to write (it seemed harder to read back what i'd written oddly).